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The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece

The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece

Stock Market Prediction Using Data Mining Techniques

A stock market is the aggregation of buyers and sellers of stocks (shares), which represent ownership claims on businesses which may include securities listed on a public stock exchange as well as those traded privately. We have seen through the years that people have incurred high losses which have led to devastations of lives and hence a need for prediction system arises which can be trusted and consistent throughout the life cycle. Also predicting stock prices is an important task of financial time series forecasting, which is of primary interest to stock investors, stock traders and applied researchers. Precisely predicting stocks is essential for investors to gain enormous profits. However the volatility of the market makes this kind of prediction is highly difficult. We show that Data Mining and Machine Learning could be used to guide an investor’s decisions. The main aim is to build a model with the help of Data Mining techniques such as Knn which can be used for classification and regression combined with Machine Learning techniques like Genetic algorithm, SVR along with Sentiment Analysis based social media text, which forecast’s stock price for companies. The system if correctly implemented will help investors and new users to kick start the investment process and can provide undue benefits. The system can be enhanced by considering the input parameters and the data considered overtime.

Gold versus Life: Jobbing Gangs and British Caribbean Slavery

Jobbing gangs—large groups of enslaved people who were principally hired out to dig sugarcane holes—were a crucial component of the British Caribbean slave economy. Emerging first in the early eighteenth century, they comprised approximately 10 percent of enslaved people in the British Caribbean by the late eighteenth century before declining after the abolition of the slave trade. The growth in jobbing gangs stemmed from elite sugar planters’ desires to temporarily augment their permanent captive labor force, boost productivity, and simultaneously preserve the health of their own enslaved laborers. The enormous profits that middling whites could earn by buying captive Africans and hiring them out as a jobbing gang accelerated social mobility in the islands. The captives whom these whites enslaved were highly mobile, enabling them to escape the confines of a single plantation. But they also experienced some of the worst working and living conditions of any enslaved people in the Americas, exposing significant inequalities among British Caribbean slaves. Examining the origins, operation, and eventual decline of jobbing gangs thus reveals the British Caribbean sugar economy as an insidiously adaptable institution that combined the flexibility of wage labor with the unmitigated violence of racial slavery.

They Called it a Boom: Nation Building in Coronado, California in 1888

In the wake of the Southern California land boom of the 1880’s, two Midwestern businessmen, Elisha S. Babcock and H.L. Story purchased all of Coronado and North Island,California in December 1885 with dreams of creating the premier resort destination in Californiafor Eastern elites. After incorporating into the Coronado Beach Company, they embarked on a publicity campaign facilitated by the local ​Coronado Evening Mercury​ and the very rails thatmade the land boom possible, netting enormous profits from lot auctions drowning inmiddle-class spectacle. This entire endeavor was contingent on the production of Coronado as athriving, sophisticated metropolis, with both cultural continuity with Eastern elite society andopportunity for advancement into middle-class whiteness. This project locates the cooperative construction of Coronado’s image between the Coronado Beach Company and the local presswithin the larger American project of incorporating the West into the nation through thecontinuation of established Eastern conceptions of gender, race, and class, resting on theideology of Anglo, middle-class male dominance.

Pengaruh Penanganan Pascapanen dan Pola Supply Chain Management (SCM) terhadap Pendapatan Petani Beras Hitam di Kabupaten Sukabumi

Black Rice is a local commodity which apparently was not found in the Ciemas area of Sukabumi Regency alone, in several Districts in Sukabumi Regency, namely in the Districts of Waluran, Cidolog, and Kabandungan. Black rice from the nutritional content and benefits is no less significant. Black Rice prices are higher than white rice or consumption rice. Every Black Rice farmer still has problems in carrying out the postharvest handling process. This is the case with Chain Management (SCM) or supplies chain management by farmers; farmers also do this with different patterns. The income of lowland rice farmers is uncertain. Because the benefits of black rice and farmers' income fluctuate every year, it is necessary to check postharvest handling and to know and analyze how efficient workflows are to accelerate supply chain management, black rice reaches consumers and makes more enormous profits. Rather than spending money on black rice entrepreneurs. The results show that the postharvest handling process and the SCM pattern affect the income of farmers in Waluran, Ciemas, Surade, Cidolog, and Kabandungan, Sukabumi Regency.

Cost-efficient data acquisition on online data marketplaces for correlation analysis

Incentivized by the enormous economic profits, the data marketplace platform has been proliferated recently. In this paper, we consider the data marketplace setting where a data shopper would like to buy data instances from the data marketplace for correlation analysis of certain attributes. We assume that the data in the marketplace is dirty and not free. The goal is to find the data instances from a large number of datasets in the marketplace whose join result not only is of high-quality and rich join informativeness, but also delivers the best correlation between the requested attributes. To achieve this goal, we design DANCE, a middleware that provides the desired data acquisition service. DANCE consists of two phases: (1) In the off-line phase, it constructs a two-layer join graph from samples. The join graph includes the information of the datasets in the marketplace at both schema and instance levels; (2) In the online phase, it searches for the data instances that satisfy the constraints of data quality, budget, and join informativeness, while maximizing the correlation of source and target attribute sets. We prove that the complexity of the search problem is NP-hard, and design a heuristic algorithm based on Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC). Experiment results on two benchmark and one real datasets demonstrate the efficiency and effectiveness of our heuristic data acquisition algorithm.

CORPORATE LIABILITY ON THE CRIME OF PRODUCING, DISTRIBUTING, AND UTILIZING NON-STANDARD VACCINES

<p>Immunization is a mandatory program by government for every child in Indonesia. In 2016, however, the vaccine used for children’s immunization was found under standardized or unqualified. It was mixed with particular substances which might lead the users into some allergies, minor or severe injuries, trauma, and even danger their lives. Parents certainly fully entrusted their children’s immunization to the competent. The crime of producing, distributing, and using non-standard vaccines involved many parties both individuals and corporations, ranging from the task of producing, distributing, and up to injecting the vaccines into children. With the enormous profits of the crime, however, only private parties were sued while the corporations were still free from any accusation and thus, it made them have potential chances to redo such crime, violating medical laws, consumer protection laws, Money laundering legislation, and up to brand and geographical indications.</p><p>This study was a legal research with statute and conceptual approaches. It aimed to investigate the provisions of producing and distributing non-standard vaccines by corporations and to analyze their liability on such crime. The results, conclusions, suggestions, and recommendations for the problem were discussed.</p>

Corporate Liability on the Crime of Producing, Distributing, and Utilizing Non-Standard Vaccines

Immunization is a mandatory program by government for every child in Indonesia. In 2016, however, the vaccine used for children‟s immunization was found under standardized or unqualified. It was mixed with particular substances which might lead the users into some allergies, minor or severe injuries, trauma, and even danger their lives. Parents certainly fully entrusted their children‟s immunization to the competent. The crime of producing, distributing, and using non-standard vaccines involved many parties both individuals and corporations, ranging from the task of producing, distributing, and up to injecting the vaccines into children. With the enormous profits of the crime, however, only private parties were sued while the corporations were still free from any accusation and thus, it made them have potential chances to redo such crime, violating medical laws, consumer protection laws, Money laundering legislation, and up to brand and geographical indications. This study was a legal research with statute and conceptual approaches. It aimed to investigate the provisions of producing and distributing non-standard vaccines by corporations and to analyze their liability on such crime. The results, conclusions, suggestions, and recommendations for the problem were discussed.

Anglo American Corporation and the South African State

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the complex and shifting relationship between the Anglo American Corporation (Anglo) and the South African State (“the State”) as reflected in Anglo’s annual reports.Design/methodology/approachThis paper builds on research on the role of annual reports in ideological conflict. To examine the ongoing relationship between Anglo and the State, the authors read all the annual reports published by Anglo American from 1917 to 1975, looking for instances in which the corporation appeared to be attempting to address, criticise, compliment, or implore the State.FindingsDuring the period under study, despite the apparent struggles between the South African State and Anglo American, the relationship between the two was primarily symbiotic. The symbolic confrontation engaged in by these two behemoths perpetuated the real, physical violence perpetrated on the oppressed workers. By appearing to be a liberal opponent of apartheid, Anglo was able to ensure continued investment in South Africa.Social implicationsThe examination of decades’ worth of annual reports provides an example of how these supposedly neutral instruments were used to contest and sustain power. Thereby, Anglo could continue to exploit workers, reap enormous profits, and maintain a fiction of opposition to the oppressive State. The State also benefited from its support of Anglo, which provided a plurality of tax revenue and economic expansion during the period.Originality/valueThis paper provides insights into the ways the State and other institutions sustain each other in the pursuit of economic and political power in the face of visible and widely condemned injustices. Although they frequently contested each other’s primacy, both benefited while black South African miners suffered.

Global Derivatives Market

Abstract Globalization of financial markets led to the enormous growth of volume and diversification of financial transactions. Financial derivatives were the basic elements of this growth. Derivatives play a useful and important role in hedging and risk management, but they also pose several dangers to the stability of financial markets and thereby the overall economy. Derivatives are used to hedge and speculate the risk associated with commerce and finance. When used to hedge risks, derivative instruments transfer the risks from the hedgers, who are unwilling to bear the risks, to parties better able or more willing to bear them. In this regard, derivatives help allocate risks efficiently between different individuals and groups in the economy. Investors can also use derivatives to speculate and to engage in arbitrage activity. Speculators are traders who want to take a position in the market; they are betting that the price of the underlying asset or commodity will move in a particular direction over the life of the contract. In addition to risk management, derivatives play a very useful economic role in price discovery and arbitrage. Financial derivatives trading are based on leverage techniques, earning enormous profits with small amount of money.

Volatility returns to petrochemicals

Until recently, the operating instructions for U.S. petrochemical makers were simple: transform cheap shale gas into derivatives such as polyethylene and ethylene glycol, sell them at enormous profits, cash checks, dazzle investors, expand production, repeat. The speakers at IHS Chemical’s World Petrochemical Conference in Houston last month made it clear that this era is coming to a close. The hydraulic fracturing that brought forth a bounty of natural gas feedstock for U.S. chemical makers also helped lower raw material prices for their global competitors. Additionally, slackening economic growth in China and elsewhere could hamper the U.S. industry’s ability to sell its mounting output. Companies, it seems, will need to adjust. “Our industry continues to be buffeted by volatile gyrations of the energy and economic trade winds that never seem to allow for smooth sailing or even a simple, steady course,” said Dave Witte, general manager of IHS Chemical, in greeting

Physicochemical Characterization of Selected Rice (Oryza Sativa L.) Genotypes Based on Gel Consistency and Alkali Digestion

Quality assessment of rice genotypes involves physicochemical and sensory test. A physicochemical test relies on the rice chemical composition, cooking quality, gelatinization temperature and physical properties of cooked rice. The aim of this study was to determine the physicochemical characteristics of selected Kenyan and Tanzanian genotypes based on gel consistency and alkali digestion. Diverse classes of rice exist with different expression levels of gel consistency and alkali digestion. As these traits are major contributors to the eating and cooking quality traits, unscrupulous traders mix both low and high-grade rice hence making enormous profits from their sales. Minitab 17.0 software package was used to determine the means and the standard error of means of the gel consistency physicochemical test results while the alkali digestion values were determined based on the standard evaluation system by International Rice Research Institute. Majority of the genotypes had high alkali digestion. Based on the gel consistency test, the average GC values ranged from 31.50 mm in ITA 310 to 99.5 mm in IR 2793. Genotype BS 217 showed significant difference from Kilombero, IR 64, Kahogo, Saro 5, ITA 310, IR 54, Wahiwahi and BW 196. These results show that physicochemical characterization using the available test procedures can be effectively utilized in analysis of diversity in rice germplasm.

Academics must cut the tentacles that threaten to strangle them

Robertson asserts that Wiley, an international publisher for which he works, reported a profit of only 11 per cent most recently. Like any international company it is difficult to know from financial statements pertaining to activities in Australia what the overall profit was. For example, based on research for her PhD, Canadian academic Heather Morrison provided details of the enormous profits of several large scientific, technical and medical scholarly publishers.

An Insufferable Business: Ethics, Nonhuman Animals and Biomedical Experiments.

Simple SummaryThis paper explores the ways in which biomedical research that uses nonhuman animal subjects generates financial profits and gains for humans who are associated with the industry. Research establishments, scientists, regulators and persons that inspect laboratories for compliance, those associated with granting licences, companies that sell nonhuman animal subjects and that supply equipment for the research, and corporations that market the resulting products are among those that benefit financially. These profits are rarely discussed—they seem to be camouflaged by the focus of the moral convention that assumes that human health-related needs prevail over those of the nonhuman animals who are so used. The paper concludes by calling for an end to the denigration of nonhuman animals as experimental subjects who can be used as commodities for profit-maximisation and as tools in experiments for human health benefits.Each year millions of nonhuman animals suffer in biomedical experiments for human health benefits. Clinical ethics demand that nonhuman animals are used in the development of pharmaceuticals and vaccines. Nonhuman animals are also used for fundamental biomedical research. Biomedical research that uses nonhuman animals is big business but the financial gains are generally occluded. This paper explores how such research generates profits and gains for those associated with the industry. Research establishments, scientists, laboratories, companies that sell nonhuman animal subjects, that supply equipment for the research, and corporations that market the resulting products are among those that benefit financially. Given the complex articulation of ethical codes, enormous corporate profits that are secured and personal returns that are made, the accepted moral legitimacy of such experiments is compromised. In order to address this, within the confines of the moral orthodoxy, more could to be done to ensure transparency and to extricate the vested financial interests from the human health benefits. But such a determination would not address the fundamental issues that should be at the heart of human actions in respect of the nonhuman animals who are used in experiments. The paper concludes with such an address by calling for an end to the denigration of nonhuman animals as experimental subjects who can be used as commodities for profit-maximisation and as tools in experiments for human health benefits, and the implementation of a more inclusive ethic that is informed by universal concern about the suffering of and compassion for all oppressed beings.

Voodoo and Human Trafficking in Nigeria: a Nation’s Albatross

Voodoo and Human Trafficking in Nigeria: a Nation’s Albatross Peter Ademu Anyebe, LL.M, BL. Abstract Trafficking in persons involves a forceful and deceitful acquisition, sale and resale of persons especially women and young girls. The focus of this paper is on voodoo and human trafficking of women and young girls for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation from Nigeria to outside world. The work finds voodoo is a major oiling wheel of trafficking in women and girls in Nigeria for sexual exploitation. The work further found that various reasons ranging from flimsy to serious ones contribute to the trafficking in women and young girls for sexual exploitation. Another disclosure is that in the process of the victims’ desperateness to migrate, the traffickers dragged them to voodoo shrines where voodoo rituals are used to coerce them into working for their sponsors. They are then transported on an often fatal journey through a number of West African countries until they reach their departure where they are sold to their “madams”. It is a fact also that belief in voodoo is very strong in some parts of Nigeria, and the women are often forced to make an oath by one of the voodoo priests, in which they swear obedience to their traffickers. The paper recommends among others that there must be mass anti-voodoo education in order to effectively disabuse peoples’ minds about the myths of voodoo. The paper concludes among others that trafficking in persons is a global problem for both sending and receiving countries and it is evil, inhuman and against the law and investigators handling cases involving voodoo oaths should try new methods to get victims’ cooperation for them to speak out. In spite of the fact that trafficking in persons is a crime, it has become a global business that affects almost every country and reaps enormous profits for traffickers and their criminal intermediaries. It has become a burden on various governments in Nigeria that has defied all legislations. Full Text: PDF DOI: 10.15640/jswhr.v3n2a3

The Development and Application of 4G Mobile Communication Technology

The paper makes an overall analysis on present exterior environment and telecom industrial status on the basis of full and accurate datum, and presents the status of 4G technology, the competition relations between 4G and other wireless technologies, overseas 4G service development and the successful experience in Korea and Japan. Then this paper points out that enormous profits and great opportunity still exist in China's mobile telecommunication market, and 4G has become more mature and been applied commercially in a large scale, the conditions of 4G development in China has also become mature.

The Cancer Agenda: Revisited

Cancer is one of the main killers in our society, in addition of being responsible of many deaths; it is also responsible for much physical and emotional suffering even in those who survive and their loved ones. In addition, to increasing morbidity, mortality and suffering, there is an enormous economic impact. In one side, it can drain the economy of families and force them to assume very significant debts, and depending on the public policy, it can consume significant part of the health budget of cities and even countries. Interestingly enough, while there are very significant costs to individuals, families and government, it can bring enormous profits to certain companies in the health industry.

Indians, Alcohol, and the Roads to Taos and Santa Fe by William E. Unrau (review)

Indians, Alcohol, and the Roads to Taos and Santa Fe. By William E. Unrau. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2013. Pp. 192. Cloth, $29.95.)Reviewed by M. J. MorganAs Emeritus Distinguished Professor of History at Wichita State University and author or coauthor of ten books about Indians, William E. Unrau is a consummate scholar in an important field. His earlier study, White Man's Wicked Water: The Alcohol Trade and Prohibition in Indian Country, 1802-1892 (Lawrence, KS, 1996), is the precursor to his new work on alcohol distribution in the Trans-Mississippi and Mountain West. Earlier, Unrau argued that federal policies and private capital merged as a force in Indian dispossession, and that the cession of Indian lands was both a result of an increased dependency on alcohol and the means by which Indian alcoholism was exacerbated.Unrau's gift is the careful probing of complex and concomitant sociopolitical events; he establishes big-picture processes for readers. In the new book, he focuses on how it came to pass that distilled alcohol . . . was in fact easily obtainable by so many resident and transient (2). Thus, his narrative concerns interlocking processes: ambitious westward expansion via trails and trade routes to the Southwest; evolving federal policies regulating land cessions and alcohol sales in Indian country; Indian mobility both as removed emigrant tribes and as Great Plains bison hunters; and finally, the devastating consequences of Indian presence along routes moving prodigious quantities of alcohol.Unrau's scope of study is tight: the years 1821-1846 in the land penetrated and impacted by the Santa Fe Trail. This land stretched from the Missouri River to Colorado and northern New Mexico, and included reservations of Indians removed from eastern states, such as the Shawnee and the Miami. The trail also passed through ancestral lands of Kansa Indians and cut across traditional hunting territories of Plains equestrian tribes: Southern Cheyenne, Kiowa, and Sioux. These three Indian groups, each with differing trade behaviors, histories of interaction with whites, and use of natural resources, have too often been discussed as s single population. Unrau understands that the Santa Fe Trail drove the establishment of settlement nuclei where alcohol could be stored, sold, and disseminated to ready buyers; and this process played out from Westport (Kansas City) to Taos. Bent's Fort in Colorado was by far the most important of these sites. Native Americans became magnetized to the trail as a conduit of market economy forces. Unrau traces the hot core of those market forces to the enormous profits . . . traders could obtain from Indians so long as they were agreeable to alcohol as the preferred payment for bison robes 119). He also examines federal annuity payments to Indians in eastern and central Kansas. Annuities, usually included as part of land cession treaties, simply provided the means to purchase rather than trade for alcohol.Seen as an argument recognizing western trails as a causal factor in Indian alcoholism, this short study is powerful. Historical literature is rife with observations by European and American travelers and military personnel, who all stated that Indians at trading posts were frequently drunk, violent, unpredictable, and loathsome. Unrau adroitly shows such observations as evidence of the impact of alcohol dissemination and unregulated policies, rather than evidence of Indian weakness. …

Current challenges and problems in the field of new psychoactive substances in Germany from a law enforcement perspective

Over the last few years, a range of so-called new psychoactive substances (NPS) have established themselves on the German recreational drug scene, causing increased concern. At the same time, a great number of Internet shops have come into existence offering these substances for sale online, ensuring a high level of availability. A number of these substances derived from pharmaceutical research which did not result in marketing authorization, presumably due to unfavourable properties. There are hardly any reliable data on long-term health damage, addictive potential, and other aspects of these scientifically unexplored substances. A number of fatal intoxications have also become known. As a rule, the mostly young consumers do not know what substance they are taking and in what concentration, thus exposing themselves to incalculable health risks and consequences. The punishability of the handling of NPS depends on the actual content: the Narcotic Drugs Act (BtMG) is applicable if a product contains narcotic drugs. If similarly effective substances are contained, which are not classified as narcotic drugs, the (penal) provisions of the Medicinal Products Act might be applicable, if the product has a pharmaceutical effect. Experience gained so far has shown that manufacturers of these intoxicating substances react immediately to inclusions in the German BtMG and put new substances on the market which are chemically similar to the known substances thus circumventing legislation. In view of the immense variety of NPS and the enormous profits derived from their sale, an end to this development is not in sight.

When General Grant Expelled the Jews by Jonathan D. Sarna (review)

Reviewed by: When General Grant Expelled the Jews by Jonathan D. Sarna George R. Goethals When General Grant Expelled the Jews Jonathan D. Sarna. New York: Schocken, 2012. 204 pp. The last pages of Jonathan D. Sarna’s fascinating book, When General Grant Expelled the Jews, note that Ulysses S. Grant has been moving from rock bottom to somewhere near the middle of the pack in historians’ ratings of U.S. presidents. To take one example, in a 2000 C-SPAN poll, Grant was ranked 33rd among 41 Presidents. However, in the 2009 C-SPAN poll he was ranked 23rd, having moved upward more than any other president. This increase reflected in part one of ten dimensions in the 2009 poll labeled “Pursued equal justice for all.” On that scale Grant had risen from eighteenth to ninth. [End Page 110] Some historians or biographers might argue that he should be ranked even higher, perhaps ahead of the two Roosevelts, for example, and behind only Lincoln, Lyndon Johnson, and Harry Truman. Picking up a book entitled When General Grant Expelled the Jews suggests that the recent uptick in the way we understand Grant’s pursuit of equal justice is about to take a hit. Quite the opposite. If readers take this book seriously, their appreciation for Grant’s performance as president will deepen significantly. The title refers to Grant’s infamous General Orders #11, issued December 17, 1862 from his headquarters in Holly Springs, Mississippi. It read: “The Jews, as a class, violating every regulation of trade established by the Treasury Department … are hereby expelled from the department within twenty-four hours from the receipt of this order.” What happened? As a result of his victories at Fort Donelson in February 1862 and Shiloh in April, Grant had been made commander of the large Department of the Tennessee, which included parts of the states of Tennessee, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Illinois. Generals in both Union and Confederate armies were exasperated by smuggling between the lines that inevitably occurred as a result of trade dislocations. For example, Union blockades ensured that bales of cotton piled up on southern docks. The Union needed cotton for uniforms, among many other things. A sharp trader could buy cheap cotton in the South and sell it for enormous profits to places such as textile mills in Lowell, Massachusetts. Some of the individuals doing these deals were Jewish, and many more fit the stereotype, widespread at the time, of “Jew trader.” Still, it is difficult to pinpoint the proximate origins of Grant’s order. Sarna suggests that whatever Grant’s underlying attitudes toward Jews, his frustration at smuggling may have boiled over because his father had just visited from Cincinnati with three Jewish brothers to see if he could cut a favorable trading deal. Individual Jews responded rapidly to Grant’s order. Cesar Kaskel, evicted from Paducah, Kentucky managed to meet with Abraham Lincoln in early January. On hearing what had happened (it was news to Lincoln), the President immediately ordered Grant to rescind the order. Grant did. He knew that he made a serious error in expelling an entire category of citizens, and he likely hoped that that was the end of it. It wasn’t. Sarna masterfully tells the story of what happened during the next 23 years, up to the day Grant died. It is as much, or perhaps more, a narrative about the actions and attitudes of individual American Jews as about the [End Page 111] conduct and policies of U. S. Grant before, during and after his 1869–1877 presidency. While Grant wanted the whole issue to go away (he omitted discussing it in his Personal Memoirs), the presidential election of 1868 didn’t permit that. The Democrats raised it, hoping to undermine Grant’s standing with Jews. Their problem, however, was that the Republican Party, headed by Grant, much better represented equal justice and Jewish interests. Jewish leaders split. On one side, German immigrant Simon Wolf, an avid Republican, convinced himself through indirect contact with Grant that the general was not to be feared by Jews. Similarly, Rabbi Liebman Adler argued that Jews should vote for the Republican Party, even if the...